After uninstalling IE7 .......

[Phobia]

I can't access any websites except my home page, I can't follow links
either. I'm using Windows XP home edition and didn't like IE7, I wanted IE6
back and removed it from the "add/remove programs" The only other thing I
did was remove cookies..... Any ideas ...... please?
Cathy

 

[Guest]

Don't want to send you over the edge, but I had a similar problem after
uninstalling IE7. It wasn't that I didn't like IE7, but too many of the
sites I visit were not compatable. I too uninstalled IE7 via add/remove, and
then found IE6 had problems. Not the same as IE7, but functions on web sites
didn't work, especially links, while the usual ones I had problems with under
IE7 seemed Ok. I tried reinstalling IE6 but found i couldn't because I kept
getting messages saying I had a newer version. After three weeks of this I
ended up backing up what I needed and formatting and reinstalling everything.
I suppose it could have been something else and not the IE6 to IE7 to IE6,
but after wasting enough time trying to fix it it took less than 4 hours to
start over with a fresh install. My theory is when IE7 is uninstalls it also
takes out some parts of IE6. I have nothing to support this,
but...................

 

[PA Bear]

Were you having the same problem in IE7?

 

[Phobia]

Actually I wasn't having too many problems with IE7 ..... sometimes a link
wouldn't work from my e-mail and people sent me digital pics from Kodak and
I couldn't save them. I've heard so many bad things about IE7 that I
decided to just remove it.

I just did a system restore and I'm now back at IE7 (guess I didn't go back
far enough) I don't know what to do now, maybe I'll just stick with IE7
Cathy

 

[Phobia]

That's what I'm afraid of ....... I'm trying to avoid a redo of my whole
system ...... I hope I can work this out.
Cathy

 

[PA Bear]

You'll need to select a Restore Point which predates the install of IE7,
Cathy.

 

[Phobia]

I can't remember when I installed it...... I went back to November 1st
Cathy

 

[Phobia]

Oh ...... I found the date and restored to October 1st ......... wow, what a
mess that was but now I seem to be back where I want to be
Cathy

 

[Wyn Hobson]

I had the same problem as JB when I uninstalled IE7 after realising that it
had caused some major problems on my system (see below). According to an
independent electronics engineer of my acquaintance, Microsoft have probably
configured IE7 in such a way that even when it is uninstalled, it leaves
behind certain resources (registry entries, possibly?) which have the effect
of blocking the reinstallation of IE6, in the manner JB describes.

Having installed Mozilla Firefox before Christmas, I quickly found that
certain Microsoft sites, notably Windows Update and Windows Live OneCare,
can not be run on it. Am I right in thinking that this block by Microsoft is
a recent development?

Be that as it may, circumstances have provided me with a workaround. I was
connected to Broadband and BT Total Broadband/BT Internet three days ago;
the latter brings with it the BT Yahoo! browser -- which is built on a
foundation of IE6 (several menu items bring up IE6 resources, with their
appearance and functions unchanged). As a result, I am now able to access
Windows Update and Live OneCare as I used to. What I must now remember to do
is never accept further updates to the BT Yahoo browser, in case one of them
brings IE7 back!


Here are the problems which appear to have been caused by IE7 on my system
(XP Home Edition with SP2):

Installing it caused 6GB to be added to the Used Space on my main hard
drive, and then caused between 100MB and 200MB a week to be added to it
thereafter (my work and downloads generally add no more than 3 to 4MB a
week). Had this continued, my disc would have been full up within less than
a year. I could not at first identify where the additions were taking
place -- it was as if a great deal of useless data was being dumped on the
disc, but not in file form and therefore not accessible or deletable.

However, two things did become clear:

1. System Restore had been damaged:

(a) it was no longer deleting old Restore Points after reaching the
specified capacity: closing it down altogether deleted all the Restore
Points as is normal, and this reduced the Used Space by about 1.4GB (most of
the sum of the weekly additions to the Used Space up to that time -- but
I've been unable to get rid of the initial addition of 6GB);

(b) it can no longer move the system to any Restore Point, even though it
continues to create Restore Points in the normal way when activated. This is
the case on BOTH the computers on which I installed IE7.

In the light of the above, I've had to deactivate System Restore on my main
machine until a solution can be found.

2. At least some of the added Used Space was/is in the form of temporary
internet files that were not made visible in the usual Temporary Internet
Files folder. However, the (partial) return of IE6 via the BT Yahoo broswer
has made this visible again.

Wyn Hobson

 

[PA Bear]

X-post to IE General

Here are the problems which appear to have been caused by IE7 on my system
(XP Home Edition with SP2):

Installing it caused 6GB to be added to the Used Space on my main hard
drive, and then caused between 100MB and 200MB a week to be added to it
thereafter...

Cannot reproduce here.

1. System Restore had been damaged:

(a) it was no longer deleting old Restore Points after reaching the
specified capacity: closing it down altogether deleted all the Restore
Points as is normal, and this reduced the Used Space by about 1.4GB (most
of
the sum of the weekly additions to the Used Space up to that time -- but
I've been unable to get rid of the initial addition of 6GB);

(b) it can no longer move the system to any Restore Point, even though it
continues to create Restore Points in the normal way when activated. This
is
the case on BOTH the computers on which I installed IE7.

Cannot reproduce here.

2. At least some of the added Used Space was/is in the form of temporary
internet files that were not made visible in the usual Temporary Internet
Files folder.

Cannot reproduce here.

Sounds like you may have had other problems (e.g., hijackware infection;
hardware issues) and installing IE7 made them evident, or you may have
installed IE7 in a less-than-ideal environment.

Required reading IMHO before installing IE7:

Sandi's Installation Tips <= FOLLOW THESE TIPS TO THE LETTER!
http://www.ie-vista.com/known_issues.html#pre-install

[And I strongly recommend using
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx as the installation source,
not Automatic/Windows Update.]

IEBlog : IE7 Installation and Anti-Malware Applications
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/10/11/IE7-Installation-and-Anti_2D00_Malware-Applications.aspx

What's New in Internet Explorer 7
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/essentials/whatsnew/whatsnew_70_sdk.asp?frame=true

Release Notes
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/ie/Aa740486

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

I had the same problem as JB when I uninstalled IE7 after realising that it
had caused some major problems on my system (see below). According to an
independent electronics engineer of my acquaintance, Microsoft have probably
configured IE7 in such a way that even when it is uninstalled, it leaves
behind certain resources (registry entries, possibly?) which have the effect
of blocking the reinstallation of IE6, in the manner JB describes.

No. That is just misinformed thinking. XPsp2 is a pre-requisite for IE7
so uninstalling IE7 reverts the OS to the version of IE imbedded in the OS,
sometimes referred to as IE6sp2. You can not reinstall IE in that OS.
The only chance XP users had to install IE as a standalone application
before IE7 was with IE6sp1 while the OS was still base, e.g. when it still
had its imbedded version of IE6 in it.

XP no longer provides an IE Repair feature either. E.g., unless you installed
IE6sp1 standalone you don't have setupwbv.dll. Instead it was apparently
expected that sfc /scannow would be sufficient to replace that feature.
This idea ignores the fact that the main purpose of the old IE Repair was
to re-register key .dlls in controlled conditions. Further it has never been
clear to me that sfc /scannow actually does any re-registration of those
key modules anyway--perhaps if they need to be replaced but then we would
be in the absurd position of having to delete those modules in order to use
the wrong tool to effect a repair.

XPsp2 provided a command-line switch with iexplore.exe /rereg,
to compensate for the above deficiency and attempt to do the mass list
of re-registrations that IE Repair would do but unfortunately its implementation
was botched. As an alternative users can try this cmd file courtesy MVP Kai Schaetzl

http://iefaq.info/index.php?action=artikel&cat=24&id=31&artlang=en


Note: IE7 users should not try using this command file
nor try many of the old regsvr32 alternatives, particularly
not ones involving shdocvw.dll as some incompatibilities
with it have been observed by MVP Ramesh Srinivasan

http://www.winhelponline.com/blogs/...uve-opened-a-new-tabquot-message-go-away.html


It looks as if the most reliable way to repair IE7 then is to uninstall
and reinstall it. There is a Reset... button in Options, Advanced tab
but its effects are unclear to me so far. E.g. I suspect it could result
in loss of more user preferences than an uninstall/reinstall procedure
and it remains to be seen how much re-registration it actually does
anyway.


FYI

Robert Aldwinckle
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